Order-to-Truckload Consolidation Planner
Group your open orders by lane and ready date, propose consolidated truckloads with estimated savings, and let a planner approve them before they become planned loads.
A team-only web tool that buckets open orders into proposed truckloads with estimated savings, lets a planner review and approve each one, and outputs a planned-loads list plus a leftover-LTL list.
Before you start
- A Vercel account (free tier is fine)
- A Supabase account (free tier is fine)
- A Resend account for email (free tier is fine)
- A list of open orders you can export to CSV (destination, weight, ready date)
The problem this kills
Cheap LTL freight is a slow leak. A pallet ships to Columbus today, two more pallets to the same lane ship tomorrow, and a fourth on Thursday. Each one moves piecemeal at less-than-truckload rates, and nobody notices that four shipments inside a three-day window could have ridden together on one truck for far less money.
The orders are all sitting right there in your system. The problem is that no human has time to eyeball every open order, mentally bucket it by destination and ready date, check it against weight and cube limits, and figure out which combinations would actually save money before the freight goes out the door. So it doesn't happen, and the savings walk away one LTL bill at a time.
What you'll build
A team-only web app that does the bucketing for you. You import your open orders (destination, weight, ready date, and whatever else you track), set your consolidation rules once, and the tool proposes consolidated truckloads: which orders ride together, on which lane, in which ready-date window, with the estimated savings versus shipping them separately. A planner reviews each proposed load, approves the good ones, and the tool turns those into planned loads while listing everything that's left over as LTL.
What's inside the Implementation Plan
A complete, paste-and-go runbook for an AI coding agent (Claude Code). You don't write the code; the agent does, and you steer it.
The plan opens by interviewing you about your business - your lanes, how you name destinations, your weight and cube limits, your ready-date windows, how you estimate LTL versus truckload cost, and your messy exceptions (hazmat, stackability, must-not-combine customers). It reflects a short tailored spec back to you and waits for your thumbs-up before it builds anything. You get a tool shaped around your freight, not a generic template.
From there the plan walks the agent through the data model, the consolidation engine, the import path, the planner's review-and-approve screen, the planned-loads and leftover-LTL outputs, and the email summary - each step ending with a ready-to-copy prompt.
The governance it includes (this is the point)
- Login so only your team can open the tool.
- Row-level security so each organization only ever sees its own orders and loads.
- A complete audit trail: who proposed, approved, or rejected each load, and when.
- A hard human-in-the-loop approval gate: the tool only ever proposes consolidations. Nothing becomes a planned load until a planner reviews and approves it.
- Duplicate guards keyed on order number so the same order can't land in two loads or get imported twice.
Who it's for
Traffic planners and logistics analysts who manage outbound freight and know there's money leaking out the LTL door - but don't have the hours to consolidate by hand. If you can export your open orders to a spreadsheet, you can build this.
You've got this - paste the first prompt and let the agent interview you.